
Genesis 1:1-5
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him.
Praise the LORD, O Jerusalem!
Praise your God, O Zion!
For he strengthens the bars of your gates; he blesses your children within you.
Sing aloud with gladness for Jacob,
and raise shouts for the chief of the nations; proclaim, give praise, and say, ‘O LORD, save your people,
the remnant of Israel.’